Full Speed Ahead

Wow. 13 days left. I am slacking in updating because we are on the go non stop. I finally have time to catch my breath and give a little update! We left Salamanca on Monday morning and I actually was sad to walk out my apartment door for the last time! We loaded a bus and spent 6 hours traveling [with a couple stops, one for lunch, so it really was a 4 hour bus trip] and made our way to La Coruna, which is in Galicia [they have they own language, it's basically spanish, but has some differences]. It is on the ocean. It is beautiful. It is my favorite place in Spain so far - I'll upload pictures later to explain why.

This post was supposed to be "the walk to school" with pictures of what I saw during my 20 minute walk to DILE. but. with slow internet that wasn't ideal [the pictures were loading for about 25 minutes without much completed] so. this is Coruna!

1. muuuuuch bigger than Salamanca. but way more beautiful :] but don't be fooled, I still LOVE Salamanca and have actually been missing it.

2. Monday when we arrived around 5:00pm we immediately went to the beach where we could look out into the ocean and see some beautiful cliffs and city skylines all around us. [we also saw the beach life of Spain. absolutely magical the way someone can feel so comfortable wearing so little :] and we thought America knew the meaning of freedom!]

3. Tuesday we had an excursion to Santiago to go on part of La Camina Santiago [the walk of Santiago] it's a pilgrimage. some people start the walk in France. we only did 5k of it [3 miles]. it's hard to describe in details - so you should Wikipedia it real quick since that is the most reliable source in the world and see what it's all about! We also visited the MASSIVE cathedral there and attended the mass service. We were then free to explore the city for a few hours and went to a couple museums.

4. Wednesday [today] we visited El Torre de Hércules and it was awesome :] the weather was a bit rude while we were making the hike up to the lighthouse that the romans created. we were able to see some original stuff from the building and then go up and look out across La Coruna. Incredible. Then Juan, Chelsey, Annie, and I took a little adventure to some rocks on the ocean. we could see the lighthouse from where we were and took some pretty nice photos.

5. we leave tomorrow morning at 9am to a new city called Burgos. There apparently isn't much to do there since we will only be there one night. but it's a new city with new things to see! [and unfortunatly write a paper about in spanish!]

i will have a lot of work to do when i get back, trying to write up my portfolio of journals and analyses, but it will be worth all the memories and new things i've learned while being in this country. i say i am ready to come home soon. but i know once i'm home i'll miss Spain "like i get paid for it" as a friend told me today haha.

Hasta Luego!!!

[i will try and post some pictures soon - but the internet at the hotel is too slow to load even one!]